Preamble

The House met at Eleven o'clock

PRAYERS

[Mr. SPEAKER in the Chair]

MEMBERS SWORN

Mr. Speaker: Hon. Members wishing to take the oath will please come to the Table. Perhaps Privy Councillors will come first.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Robert Joseph Mellish, Bermondsey.

Right honourable John Thomson Stone-house, Wednesbury.

Right honourable Sir Geoffrey Stanley de Freitas, K.C.M.G., Kettering.

Right honourable Sir Frederick Elwyn Jones, Q.C., West Ham, South.

Walter Ernest Padley, esquire, Ogmore.

Brian Caldwell Cook Batsford, esquire, Ealing, South.

John Mackie, esquire, Enfield, East.

Reginald Frederick Brittain Bennett, esquire, Gosport and Fareham.

James Anthony Dunn, esquire, Liverpool, Kirkdale.

Neil George Carmichael, esquire, Glasgow, Woodside.

Albert Arthur Jones, esquire, South Northants.

Norman Findlay Buchan, esquire, West Renfrewshire.

Sir Charles Stuart Taylor, T.D., Eastbourne.

William Wilson, esquire, Coventry, South.

John Meredith Temple, esquire, City of Chester.

Hugh Dunbar Brown, esquire, Glasgow, Provan.

Richard Buchanan, esquire, Glasgow, Springburn.

Robert Hughes, esquire, Aberdeen, North.

James Eugene MacColl, esquire, Widnes.

Captain Walter Elliot, D.S.C., Carshalton.

Peter Hardy, esquire, Rother Valley.

Albert Percy Costain, esquire, Folkestone and Hythe.

Dudley Gordon Smith, esquire, Warwick and Leamington.

Herbert Keith Speed, esquire, Meriden.

Harold Soref, esquire, Ormskirk.

Colonel Sir Malcolm Stoddart-Scott, O.B.E., T.D., Ripon.

John Arnold Farr, esquire, Harborough.

Trevor Herbert Harry Skeet, esquire, Bedford.

David Charles Waddington, esquire, Nelson and Colne.

Andrew Bowden, esquire, M.B.E., Brighton, Kemptown.

Kenneth Lomas, esquire, Huddersfield, West.

William George Price, esquire, Rugby.

Peter Maudsley Hordern, esquire, Horsham.

Nigel Thomas Loveridge Fisher, esquire, M.C., Surbiton.

David Lance Crouch, esquire, Canterbury.

John Astor, esquire, commonly called the honourable John Astor, Newbury.

Michael Aubrey Hamilton, esquire, Salisbury.

Marcus Richard Kimball, esquire, Gains-borough.

Stephen Lewis Edmonstone Hastings, esquire, M.C., Mid-Bedfordshire.

Right honourable John Enoch Powell, M.B.E., Wolverhampton, South-West.

Michael Hugh Meacher, esquire, Oldham, West.

Margaret Betty Harvie Anderson, O.B.E., T.D., Renfrewshire, East.

Donald James Stewart, esquire, Western Isles.

Keith Monin Stainton, esquire, Sudbury and Woodbridge.

Joyce Shore Butler, Wood Green.

Peter Lewis Rost, esquire, South-East Derbyshire.

Freda Kunzlen Corbet, Camberwell, Peckham.

Eldon Wylie Griffiths, esquire, Bury St. Edmunds.

Edwin Wainwright, esquire, B.E.M., Dearne Valley.

Christopher Paget Mayhew, esquire, Woolwich, East.

Malcolm MacPherson, esquire, M.B.E., Stirling and Falkirk Burghs.

Sir Esme Tatton Cecil Brinton, Kidderminster.

Denis Herbert Howell, esquire, Birmingham, Small Heath.

11.33 a.m.

Mr. Speaker: I propose to suspend the Sitting until noon.

12 noon.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Joseph Hiley, esquire, Pudsey.

William Samuel Hilton, esquire, Bethnal Green.

Patrick Henry Bligh Wall, esquire, M.C., Haltemprice.

Maurice Edelman, esquire, Coventry, North.

Timothy Hugh Francis Raison, esquire, Aylesbury.

Right honourable Goronwy Owen Roberts, Caernarvon.

Ernest Armstrong, esquire, North-West Durham.

Henry Paul Guiness Channon, esquire, Southend, West.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until half-past Twelve.

12.30 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Robert Adam Ross Maclennan, esquire, Caithness and Sutherland.

Irene Mervyn Parnicott Pike, Melton.

Joan Mary Quennell, M.B.E., Petersfield.

Mary Holt, Preston, North.

Right honourable Alfred Ernest Marples, Wallasey.

George Jeger, esquire, Goole.

Alan Beaney, esquire, Hemsworth.

Cranley Gordon Douglas Onslow, esquire, Woking.

James Tinn, esquire, Cleveland.

Maurice Victor Macmillan, esquire, Farnham.

12.36 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: I propose to suspend the Sitting until 2 p.m.

2.0 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Frederick Lee, Newton.

Sir George Evelyn Sinclair, C.M.G., O.B.E., Dorking.

Bernard Conlan, esquire, Gateshead, East.

Patrick Michael Ernest David McNair-Wilson, esquire, New Forest.

Arthur William John Lewis, esquire, West Ham, North.

Harold Boardman, esquire, Leigh.

Edward Leadbitter, esquire, The Hartle-pools.

Kenelm Simon Digby Wingfield Digby, esquire, T.D., West Dorset.

Dennis Edward Skinner, esquire, Bolsover.

Geoffrey Johnson Smith, esquire, East Grinstead.

James Bennett, esquire, Glasgow, Bridgeton.

Sir Frederic Mackarness Bennett, Torquay.

Rafton John Pounder, esquire, Belfast, South.

Rear-Admiral Morgan Charles Morgan-Giles, D.S.O., O.B.E., G.M., Winchester.

2.10 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: I suspend the Sitting until 2.45 p.m.

2.45 p.m.

The following Member took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

Right honourable Judith Constance Mary Hart, Lanark.

2.50 p.m.

Mr. Speaker: The Sitting is suspended until 3.45 p.m.

3.45 p.m.

The following Members took and subscribed the Oath, or made and subscribed the Affirmation required by Law:

William Thomas Rodgers, esquire, Stockton-on-Tees.

Ernest Fernyhough, esquire, Jarrow.

Right honourable Anthony Perrinot Lysberg Barber, T.D., Altrincham and Sale.

ADJOURNMENT

Resolved, That this House do now adjourn till Tomorrow at twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock.—[Mr. Pym.]

Adjourned accordingly at Four o'clock.